Unsound Festival New York enlists the likes of Oren Ambarchi, Suzanne Ciani, copeland, Huerco S. and more to drill a hole through the space-time continuum

Listen, I don’t know much about science, but one thing I do know is wormholes are dangerous and unstable and often result in the folks from Star Trek getting into “space jams” of a wacky and treacherous sort. So you’ll understand my skepticism at the proposition of the originally-based-in-Poland Unsound Festival trying to throw cracks into the space-time continuum by way of putting on alternate versions of the festival all around the world, for example in Adelaide, Australia, and now in New York (this is the fourth version of the event in New York after a break last year). Before you try to tell me something like, “Dude, they’re just putting on festivals, no science tricks,” I’ll warn you that I’m pretty committed to believing this so just let me finish.

So, more details on the New York festival so you can either attend it (because the music part seems like it will be pretty cool) or avoid it, because, like most reasonable people, you fear unstable inter-dimensional pathways (n.b. though, if my calculations are correct and Unsound is successful, there won’t be a safe place in the universe and we’ll all be instantaneously ground to space bits). The festival will feature a whole bunch of musicians who are super cool and will probably make TMT readers’ little ears perk right up, including Oren Ambarchi, Suzanne Ciani, copeland, Demdike Stare, Stara Rzeka, and Huerco S. That’s not even all of them! That’s just as many as I felt like typing because my fingers got tired! A full list of the performers is available on the festival’s Facebook event page (a full website with additional details is forthcoming). The festival organizers have also partnered with The Wire to include a compilation CD entitled Tunnels (a reference to the wormholes the event’s organizers are attempting to create) featuring many of the performers with the magazine’s April issue.

Presented in conjunction with Fundacja Tone and the Polish Cultural Institute New York, the whole deal will take place between Wednesday, April 2 and Sunday, April 6. Remember that when the universe collapses, time will be meaningless, so it’s up to you if you want to mark your calendar or wait until every instant from all of time is happening simultaneously. The performances will take place in venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan including the ISSUE Project Room and Cameo Gallery, but, like time, space will also collapse into a functionally massless point once the wormholes open, so no worries about catching the train or anything.

Every day, it gets closer and closer to the year 3030. But who cares? By then, we’ll all be dead. There are only three people in the world who may be excited about the ever-approaching year 3030, those being the three members of hip-hop group Deltron 3030. Of course, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Dan the Automator, and Kid Koala will also all be dead by that year, unless Dan the Automator knows something we don’t. No matter, XLR8R reports the three will be celebrating the closest proximity to that distant time by going on a tour of the United States this spring.

The now-alive, dead-by-3030 trio will be supporting last year’s Event II, their first record since their self-titled 2000 debut. Though that 13-year wait between the two records was certainly lengthy, fans of the group will have to wait even longer for a third record. Sources report that the group are working on a new record, but upon completion will place the album in a time capsule only to be opened 1016 years from now. These sources reporting this information come entirely from my brain, because this is not a thing that is happening. It’s a lie. The only truth is that we’ll all die sometime before the year 3030. Happy future, everyone!

As was previously alluded to, members of Thee Oh Sees scoff at societal convention and things like accepted definitions of words. While taking a “hiatus” might indicate for the rest of us a euphemism for involuntary career suspension, or entail an indefinite vacation with indefinite activities (but for sure, personally, an indefinite number of pizzas consumed), for Thee Oh Sees it apparently means a mere lapse in live performances — as if they hadn’t exceeded the quota already! Furthermore, with the following news, it’s clear that they’ve swapped ”hiatus” for one of its sorta-anagrams. “Ha, suit!” is their unmitigated response to the pressure to become slaves to The Man, greenback-lined though His swanky business attire may be. Deserving of kudos, they’re sticking to the music, collectively and otherwise.

Eh, sort of. Let’s temper that whole “lack of an actual hiatus” thing a bit, because while Drop, Thee Oh Sees’ fifth official full-length in four years, is set for release April 19, it was technically recorded last fall and not somehow instantaneously since the official announcement of a hiatus back in December. Obviously we’ll take it regardless: the album features contributions from Mikal Cronin, Greer McGettrick of the recently split, also-Bay Area band The Mallard, Casafis, and drummer Chris Woodhouse. Woodhouse apparently also owns the venue in which the album was recorded, a “banana ripening warehouse.” So in the absence of a definitive scientific answer either way, let’s assume the rage-inducing qualities of mass banana smells. The track below has been labeled “the heaviest Oh Sees song yet.”

Last year, American treasure Michael Winslow (best known for Police Academy and cool noises) took the stage at Bonnaroo to join some band called Animal Collective. Just kidding. We all know who Animal Collective are. But the Michael Winslow thing definitely happened. As if to prove that this titanic event occurred, Pitchfork reports Animal Collective have put out an EP through Spotify documenting their touch with the gods. Appropriately titled Spotify Sessions, the four-track EP can be heard right now by Spotify users.

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The set features Animal Collective performing a song from each of their last four records. Which is great and all, those are good records, but it does leave one pondering the possibilities. What could Michael Winslow have added to Sung Tongs’ “Visiting Friends”? Or “I See You Pan,” the opener of 2002’s Holinndagain? Well, wonder no longer. Michael Winslow would have added fire truck sounds.

Bob Casale, one of the original members of Devo, passed away Monday from “conditions that lead to heart failure” at the age of 61, according to his brother and bandmate Gerald Casale.

“As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with me from the beginning,” Casale wrote on the band’s Facebook page. “He was my level-headed brother, a solid performer and talented audio engineer, always giving more than he got. He was excited about the possibility of Mark Mothersbaugh allowing Devo to play shows again. His sudden death from conditions that lead to heart failure came as a total shock to us all.”

Devo is an American New Wave band that was formed in 1972, in part, by brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob and Gerald Casale. At first an underground band — bursting onto the scene with debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! — Devo soon found widespread fame 1980’s Freedom of Choice and the single “Whip It,” the video for which received massive airplay on MTV.

Like certain individuals in the soul-obliterating Black Lodge, the vinyl soundtracks of David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks and follow-up film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me have been stuck in limbo for a good 20 years. Neither have been available since their original releases in 1990 and 1992, respectively, perhaps because they’re being milked for their sweet, sweet Garmonbozia. But soon, their soul torture shall be over, as The Vinyl Factory reports that Death Waltz Recording Company will be reissuing the pair later this year. No release date has been set, though you may be able to derive the date of release by throwing a series of rocks into the woods.

Referencing the dietary habits of a one Mr. Dale Cooper, the Twin Peaks soundtrack will be printed on cherry-colored vinyl, while the Fire Walks With Me soundtrack will be coffee-colored. Variations in different colors such as “log” or “crazy-Black-Lodge-floor” have not been announced and will likely never be announced, but if anyone from Death Waltz is reading this, think about it. The company has not yet released the cover art for the records, though they do say that the covers are finished and have been approved by David Lynch. You can always (?) trust David Lynch.